Insomniac's FC gaim status report

[Matthias Saou]

Stephen J Smoogen wrote :

> What I found to be useful on getting sleep done was:
> 
> 1) Turn off the computers.
> 2) Put away the computer books.
> 3) Put away the interesting spycatcher/murder-mystery
> 4) Take a half-hour->hour walk [having a toddler helps immensely here]
> 5) Drink a nice glass of warm fluids (non-caffeinated.) Warm water 
> doesnt seem to cut it.
> 6) Relax for a bit before getting into bed. Meditation, prayer, or just 
> quiet time [hard with a toddler, but possible ;)]
> 7) Goto bed.
> 8) If you find out that you cant sleep after 80 minutes because your 
> brain is whirring about bugs, security problems, webserver issues, state 
> of Fedora.us, lack of public CVS, etc... go back to step 4 but increase 
> the time for walking. [getting an exercise bike/walker helps here.]
> 
> That helped me the most after I left Red Hat. I wish I had thought of it 
> when I had been there :).

I totally agree here, as I definitely feel a real difference between days
when I don't do much physical efforts and those when I do. My sport
addiction here, like quite a lot of other urban geeks I know, is
rollerblading, which I practice 4 to 7 days a week :-D
I _really_ recommend it, and depending on how tired you already are or want
to be, it's very easy to dose the amount of effort you'll do for the day. I
also go to my office and come back skating every day, and don't have an
elevator in my building, both also help ;-), every little bit does! I
really realise this when I spend hours non-stop behind a screen and feel
tired "in my head" but not "in my body"... rest is then easily achievable,
but sleep isn't... so I just go skating, take a nice relaxing shower when I
get home and off to bed!

Nearly the end of this totally OT message, but here's the final :
http://www.marmotte.net/roller/200406-slalom-thias2.avi

The greatest part is that skating is like packaging : Get involved in a
community, share the knowledge, practise, and you can get quite far :-) And
unsurprisingly, my favorite discipline is called "Free Ride" or "Free
Skate", heh.

Matthias, off to the Friday Night Skate in a short while.

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